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Guruvaibhavam 2023, our third Guruvaibhavam event in the series, focussed on Thyagaraja Swamigal, one of the Trinities in Carnatic music.
26 talented singers from various age groups participated from various states across India. Our participants performed 15 Thyagaraja kritis covering varied ragas and talas. They were accompanied by Sri Kailasapathy G on Violin and Sri Murali N Iyer on Mridangam.
The program was inaugurated by our chief guests Brahmashri Vignesha Deekshitar, a well known Agnihotri, Shri. Kodunthirapully Paremeswaran, a highly reputed mridangam player, guru and Shri. Ambikapuram GK Sivaraman, a stalwart in Carnatic vocal.
Our anchors Ms Aishwarya P L and Smt Savitha Sreenivasan took us through the journey describing each Kriti origin, meaning, how it was created, ragas, talas, making the experience for our audience so blissful and complete.
The program was concluded with the felicitation ceremony of maithree members, our guru and momentos to our participants.
Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal
Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal
About Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal
About Sri Thyagaraja Swamigal
Thyagaraja (4 May 1767 – 6 January 1847), also known as Thyāgayya and in full as Kakarla Thyagabrahmam, was a composer and vocalist of Carnatic music, a form of Indian classical music. Born in Tiruvarur District, TamilNadu. Tyagaraja and his contemporaries, Shyama Shastri and Muthuswami Dikshitar, are regarded as the Trinity of Carnatic music. Thyagaraja composed thousands of devotional compositions, most in Telugu and in praise of Lord Rama, many of which remain popular today, the most popular being "Nagumomu". Of special mention are five of his compositions called the Pancharatna Kritis (transl. "five gems"), which are often sung in programs in his honour, and Utsava Sampradaya Krithis (transl. Festive ritual compositions), which are often sung to accompany temple rituals.
Tyāgarāja began his musical training at an early age under Sonti Venkata Ramanayya, a music scholar, after the latter heard his singing and was impressed by the child prodigy. Tyagaraja regarded music as a way to experience God's love. His compositions focused on expression, rather than on the technicalities of classical music. He also showed a flair for composing music and, in his teens, composed his first song, "Namo Namo Raghavayya", in the Desika Todi ragam and inscribed it on the walls of the house. His compositions are mainly of a devotional (bhakti) or philosophical nature. His songs feature himself usually either in an appeal to his deity of worship (primarily the Avatar Rama), in musings, in narratives, or giving a message to the public. He has also composed krithis in praise of Krishna, Shiva, Shakti, Ganesha, Muruga, Saraswati, and Hanuman.
About 700 songs remain of the 24,000 songs said to have been composed by him; however, scholars are skeptical about numbers like these, as there is no biographical evidence to support such claims. In addition to nearly 700 compositions (kritis), Tyagaraja composed two musical plays in Telugu, the Prahalada Bhakti Vijayam and the Nauka Charitam. Prahlada Bhakti Vijayam is in five acts with 45 kritis set in 28 ragas and 138 verses, in different metres in Telugu. Nauka Charitam is a shorter play in one act with 21 kritis set in 13 ragas and 43 verses. The latter is the most popular of Tyagaraja's operas, and is a creation of the composer's own imagination and has no basis in the Bhagavata Purana. Tyagaraja also composed a number of simple devotional pieces appropriate for choral singing.
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